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Dr. Sinéad Monaghan

Associate Professor (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Sinéad Monaghan

Associate Professor (Trinity Business School)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 SINEAD.MONAGHAN@tcd.ie

 3531896 3127


Sinéad Monaghan is Associate Professor of International Business and Global Strategy. She is also Director of the MSc in International Management. Her research operates at the nexus of international business, international entrepreneurship and economic geography, centring on the process of firm internationalization. In particular, Sinéad seeks to understand the mechanisms of how firms rapidly move into international markets and what locational factors enable market insidership. A second strand of research focuses on the career identity and wellbeing of women, particularly female founders and female-led enterprise. To date, her work has received significant interest within the academic community with publications in the Journal of International Business Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research and Industry and Innovation, amongst others. She regularly presents her work at leading international conferences and is a member of the Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management. Sinéad has also received several prestigious honors, including the 'Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize for the Most Original New Work' (2012), and research funding from the Irish Research Council. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Transnational Corporations. Sinéad is the IE-Scholar Regional Ambassador for the UK and Ireland and is the Membership Officer on the executive committee of AIB (UKI Chapter). Prior to joining Trinity, Sinéad was Assistant Professor of International Business at Rutgers Business School (USA), having previously held a visiting position in University College Dublin and a post-doctoral scholarship at the University of Limerick. She has taught in the areas of International Business, Global Management and Strategy and International Human Resource Management at graduate and post-graduate levels and has delivered distinguished lectures and invited presentations at a number of leading international universities. Having worked closely with many international firms and government agencies, Sinéad has written a number of teaching cases and case study reports. Sinéad is also a qualified Business and Executive Coach and Chartered Organizational Psychology. She works closely with individuals and firms to support change, growth and performance, and integrates her academic, personal, and professional experience to support leaders, executives, and organizations in maximizing their potential.
  entrepreneurial strategy   Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)   International Business   INTERNATIONALIZATION   MULTINATIONAL-ENTERPRISE   Qualitative research methods   Social Network Analysis   Strategic Management/ Strategy
Project Title
 Synergistic Networks between Multinational Subsidiaries and Subnational Actors
From
September 2010
To
September 2013
Summary
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholar
Project Type
PhD
Project Title
 Evolutionary economic geography, international business and foreign direct investment (FDI)
From
January 2013
To
September 2013
Summary
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
New Foundations Award
Project Type
Early Career Scholarship

Details Date
Co-founder, sponsor and organiser of Special Interest Group (SIG) in International Business at Irish Academy of Management (IAM) September 2013
Panel Organiser "Time, speed and pace of multinational activity", Academy of International Business (Annual Meeting) June 2016
External Examiner of PhD Thesis, University of Oviedo April 2017
JIBS Paper Development Workshop, European International Business Association (EIBA) December 2018, 2019
JIBS Paper Development Workshop, Academy of International Business (UK&I Chapter) April 2019, 2020
Journal of International Business Studies (ABS4*/FT50), Editorial Board Member February 2018
Journal of World Business (ABS4), Editorial Board Member August 2019
Transnational Corporations (ABS2), Editorial Board Member April 2019
AIB UK&I Executive Committee Member January 2020
IE-Scholar, Regional Ambassador for UK and Ireland November 2018
Host, Academy of International Business (UK&I Chapter), Paper Development Workshop 2019 and 2020 October 2019
External Examiner of PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia April 2020
Panel Organiser "Global Scaling: Scale-ups and Scaling in International Business", Academy of International Business (Annual Meeting) July 2020
AIB UK&I, Membership Officer January 2021
Panel Organiser at AIB-UKI 'International Entrepreneurship: Tips and Techniques for Effective Teaching' April 2021
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English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Academy of International Business 2011 Present
Academy of Management 2014 Present
Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) - Chartered Psychologist 2014 Present
Strategic Management Society 2015 present
European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) 2024 present
Association for Coaching (AC) 2024 present
Unconventional Internationalization Decisions in Global Scaling: Understanding the Influence of CEO Characteristics in, editor(s)Christian Felzensztein, Afsaneh Bagheri and Christian Lechner , A Research Agenda for Startups" Scale-up, Scale-down and Re-scaling Strategies., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, [Tippmann, E. and Monaghan, S], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Tippmann, E., Ambos, T., Del Giudice, M., Monaghan, S. & Ringov, D., Scale-ups and Scaling in an international business context, Journal of World Business, 58, (1), 2023, p101397 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Digital entrepreneurship and localization in, editor(s)J. Mark Munoz , Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy, Routledge, New York, 2022, pp64 - 76, [Reuber, A.R., Tippmann, E., & Monaghan, S.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Tippmann, E., Monaghan, S. & Reuber, A.R., Navigating the paradox of global scaling, Global Strategy Journal, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Whole Networks in, editor(s)Professor Bruce Frey , The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design (2nd), Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, SAGE, 2021, [Sinéad Monaghan], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Reuber, R.A., Tippmann, E. & Monaghan, S., Global Scaling as a Logic of Multinationalization, Journal of International Business Studies, 52, (4), 2021, p1031 - 1046, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Di Pietro, F., Monaghan, S. & O'Hagan-Luff, M., Entrepreneurial Finance and HRM Practices in Small Firms, British Journal of Management, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Piaskowska, D., Tippmann, E. & Monaghan, S., Scale-up modes: Profiling activity configuration in high-growth strategies, Long Range Planning, 54, (6), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
HR function at MNC subsidiary level: Mediating challenges and tensions in, editor(s)Tony Dundon and Adrian Wilkinson , Case studies in work, employment and human resource management, United Kingdom, Edward Elgar Publishing , 2020, pp216 - 222, [Jonathan Lavelle, Patrick Gunnigle, Sinéad Monaghan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Monaghan, S., Tippmann, E. & Coviello, N., Born digitals: Thoughts on their internationalization and a research agenda, Journal of International Business Studies, 51, (1), 2020, p11 - 22, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Reuber, A.R., Tippmann, E. & Monaghan, S., Scaling a business globally: An integrative approach, Rotman Management Magazine, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sinead Monaghan and Esther Tippmann, 'Digging deeper: how Irish subsidiaries drive international expansion', Irish Times, Irish Times, 2019, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Sinead Monaghan, Rapid Multinationalization: Navigating the growth and scaling of firms, International Business and Enterprise Cluster, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Sinead Monaghan, The road I travelled, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference,, Babson College, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Sinead Monaghan, Navigating the global scaling paradox, RAISED Seminar, Rutgers Business School, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Kim, J.K., Lee, A., Monaghan, S. & Mudambi, R., Fotonation: Leveraging international knowledge connectivity, 2016, Notes: [Teaching Case with Ivey Publishing], Case Study, PUBLISHED
O'Shea, Deirdre, Monaghan, Sinéad, The Millennial Generation: Insights into increasing work-related satisfaction., OMT, 2009, Report, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Best Reviewer Award, Journal of International Business Studies (FT50/ABS4*) 2020
Trinity Business School Research Excellence Award 2020
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund 2020
Best Reviewer Award, Journal of World Business (ABS 4) 2019
Trinity Business School Research Excellence Award 2019
Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development (RAISED) 2015
Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize for the Most Original New Work (AIB-UKI) 2012
New Foundations Award, Irish Research Council 2012
European Science Foundation 2011
Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholarship 2010